Some Nerve; Lessons Learned While Becoming Brave

Patty Chang Anker

ISBN 10: 1594486050 / ISBN 13: 9781594486050

Published by Riverhead Books, New York, NY, 2013

About this Item

Riverhead Books, New York. 2013. Hardcover. 2nd Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: As New. DJ: As New. Blue boards with white overlay on spine with bright silver lettering on spine. 356 pp. This book is for anyone who needs to be reminded that it is possible to conquer our greatest fears at any age, and in the process learn more about what it feels like to really live. Departing from her fears, she found most people suffer from their secret terrors and the author took it on as her mission to help others do what they thought they couldn't , and feel for themselves the powerful sense of being alive that is the true reward of becoming brave. A clean pristine edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Some Nerve; Lessons Learned While Becoming Brave
• Publisher: Riverhead Books, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594486050
• ISBN 13: 9781594486050
• Binding: Hardcover
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy/management/leadership
  • Womens's Studies

About this title

Synopsis

One woman’s quest to conquer her fears and embrace life—and to inspire others to do the same

Patty Chang Anker grew up eager to please and afraid to fail. But after thirty-nine years, she decided it was time to stop being a chicken. Motivated initially to become a better role model for her two young daughters, she vowed to face the fears that had taken root like weeds, choking the fun and spontaneity out of life. She learned to dive into a swimming pool, ride a bike, do a handstand, and surf. As she shared her experiences, she discovered that most people suffer from their own secret terrors—of driving, flying, heights, public speaking, and more. It became her mission to help others do what they thought they couldn’t, and to feel for themselves the powerful sense of being alive that is the true reward of becoming brave.

Inspired and inspiring, Some Nerve draws on Anker’s interviews with teachers, therapists, coaches, and clergy to impart both practical advice and profound wisdom. Through her own journey and the stories of dozens of others who have triumphed over common fears, she conveys with humor and infectious exhilaration the most vital lesson of all: Fear isn’t an end point, but the point of entry to a life of incomparable joy.

FEARS INCLUDE: Aging, Becoming Boring, Biking, Breaking bones, Bullies, Chaos, Clutter, Cold, Control (loss of), Crime, Death, Driving, Exercise, Failure, Flying, Heights, Letting go, Looking dumb, Math, Nature (esp. sharks), P.E., Pleasure, Public Speaking, Public toilets, Rejection, Roller coasters, Success, Surfing, Tubing, Unemployment, Unknown, Water, Writing. And Wedgies.

About the Author

Patty Chang Anker is the author of Some Nerve: Lessons Learned While Becoming Brave (Riverhead 2013), a memoir about facing her fears and helping others to do the same. She is the blogger behind Facing Forty Upside Down, for which she was named a Good Housekeeping Blogger We Love and a Top 25 Funny Mom at Circle of Moms. She writes the "Some Nerve" blog at PsychologyToday.com and her work has also appeared in magazines and websites from Marie Claire to iVillage. When she's not facing her fears she can be found teaching yoga, publicizing other people's work, or chasing her daughters across Westchester County.